Telegraph.co.uk Ten Apps Every iPad User Should Own PCWorld By Lex Friedman, Macworld iPad app store.There are many thousands of apps available. (As Apple's advertising campaign says, "There's an app for that.") But some apps are simply must-haves--whether for their functionality, interface brilliance, ... Apple Wants its New iPad and other iOS devices in Your Business, By the Boatload! Forbes The

You've used Windows 7's built-in Calculator a million times, but did you know it has these hidden talents? Forget spending extra money to calculate your mortgage rate--we discover this old, free standard has tricks up its sleeve. Be amazed

Screened: the six best apps for fans of fitness, exercise experts and the hopeless with health. This food tracker from Massive Health asks you to take photos of your meals. Rate them as fantastic or junktastic, add input from other users and you'll start to notice your bad eating habits to get a head start on fixing them. By: Nate Lanxon, Edited by: Dan Smith Continue reading

Globe and Mail Microsoft's Metro: Does it need iTunes to thrive? CNET (blog) Apple is unlikely to make a version of iTunes for Microsoft's new Windows interface, and that could make some of the upcoming Windows tablets less appealing to consumers. by Jay Greene March 19, 2012 4:00 AM PDT Follow @iamjaygreene To make Windows 8 a

Chris Blizzard (Credit: Mozilla) Chris Blizzard, a high-profile figure in the Firefox world, has left his job as Mozilla's director of Web platform to join a startup. "I'm trying something new and starting in the next week or so I'm going to be joining a very small startup that's based in Palo Alto," Blizzard said in his announcement last week on his blog. " I happened to stumble ac...

Computerworld New iPad is the 'epitome' of what a tablet should be Computerworld By Michael deAgonia The new iPad builds on the success of earlier versions by adding a super-high-resolution 'Retina' display and 4G/LTE access. (Image: Michael deAgonia.) Computerworld - Two years ago, Apple side-swiped the computer industry by ... New iPad parts most expensive yet SlashGear Apple...

ABC News Soon After Release, Latest IPad Model Is Jailbroken PCWorld By Jeremy Kirk, IDG-News-Service:Sydney-Bureau Hackers claimed to have figured out a way to bypass Apple's technical restrictions and install unauthorized applications on the company's latest iPad upon its release last Friday

What are your opinions on security? I'm looking to mount my homepatrol in the car. I'm concerned that it will be stolen. Mounted in plain sight with a windshield mount, it will look like an easy to steal gps unit. Has anyone figured out how to lock up or secure their scanners? Sure I could stow it under the seat, but who wants to disconnect it every time you get out of the car? Thoughts

NEWS.com.au IPad fans line up worldwide Vancouver Sun People who couldn't bear to wait weeks to get their hands on the new iPad lined up for hours - and in some cases overnight - outside Apple store locations in Canada and around the world to buy the latest version of the technology giant's popular tablet ... Dissected iPad reveals Samsung

USA TODAY Neutrinos not faster than speed of light in new ICARUS experiment The State Column It appears that Albert Einstein was probably right when he posited that nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. According to a press release from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN

Kansas City Star New screen, battery make new iPad more expensive to make than iPad 2, research ... Washington Post NEW YORK — Apple appears to be making less of a profit from each new iPad than it did when it launched the previous model a year ago, according to a research firm's analysis. IHS iSuppli took apart a new iPad on Friday, the day the device went on sale ... R...

NEW YORK--Mike Daisey made a name for himself by taking on mighty Apple but is now challenging the credibility of a little-known Chinese translator. The actor and Apple critic is putting his word against hers. The woman who assisted him during a trip to China in 2010 disputes many of his claims about witnessing inhumane working conditions at factories where iPads and iPhones are assembled. Daisey

KTVU San Francisco New Whale Spotted in San Francisco Bay NBC Bay Area Another gray whale has been spotted in San Francisco Bay, and boaters are again being asked to steer clear. The whale, reported Saturday, is one of several to be spotted this month, including a mother and calf pair that swam into the Bay last week. Another gray whale spotted in SF Bay San Francisco Chronicle (blog

msnbc.com Count how many stars are in the sky using NASA's awe-inspiring panorama Geek If you have ever gazed up at a cloudless night time sky and wondered exactly how many stars are up there, NASA has released an image that can help you answer that question. Pictured above (albeit much smaller than the original) is a beautiful panorama ... NASA Releases New WISE Mission Catalog Of Entire Infrared

In case you haven't heard, Apple released a new iPad on 16 March, instantly rendering any tablet other than this shiny, Retina display miracle obsolete. At Wired we've got a few iPad 2′s lying around, but frankly we're just too embarrassed to be seen using them now that we have colleagues running around with the new iPad. That got us thinking about how you can repurpose your outdated ...

NetZero to Launch Free Wireless Broadband Service ABC News It's like the '90s never left: Billy Crystal hosted the Oscars. Internet IPOs are back. And NetZero is returning with free Internet service —only this time it's wireless. United Online Inc. announced Monday that it will offer free wireless Internet ... and more »

Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com Monday forecast: Mostly cloudy, high near 67 Baltimore Sun The National Weather Service is calling for Monday to be mostly cloudy in the Baltimore area, with a high near 67 and winds becoming southeasterly between 5 and 8 miles per hour. There is a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Weather: after fog, sunny skies, warm temps Asbury Park...

Facebook is no doubt one of the best and most popular social network out there, but facebook user interface keeps on changing because of which some of the facebook users gets annoyed very much, one such feature is facebook timeline which has been started rolling out for facebook users, one can go and activate facebook

Heavy rains heading to SA and surrounding area San Antonio Express By Hollie L. O'Connor San Antonio could be in for severe thunderstorms with heavy rain and flash flooding starting Monday night, forecasters said. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch from 6 pm Monday until noon Tuesday, ... and more »

The Avira AntiVir Rescue System a linux-based application that allows accessing computers that cannot be booted anymore. Thus it is possible to repair a damaged system, to rescue data or to scan the system for virus infections. [License: Freeware| Requires: Win All | Size: 243 MB

New iPad (2012) Unboxing & 1st Look! New iPad (2012) Unboxing! Two unboxings of the same product in one day. Why not? The new iPad is, up to this point, the biggest tablet release of the year. After an inexhaustible amount of rumors, Apple's precious has finally arrived at the TechnoBuffalo offices. There's not much to discern from the box alone; the big news is the screen, if you haven't hear...

Im running a small light that draws 1.6 amps max. From the switch to the fuse box (car fuse box) im running 18-20 Gauge wire. Near the switch im placing an inline fuse, but the wire gauge on either side of the fuse holder is 16 Gauge.. is it okay to go from 18-20 Gauge wire to 16 Gauge wire? I know not to go from a smaller number gauge to a smaller number wise due to increased resistance... but is

Girlfriend Getaway: Things to do in Charlotte USA TODAY (blog) The main focus of our girlfriend getaway was Asheville and the Biltmore, but the timing of our flights from Seattle and Minneapolis meant that we needed to spend some time in Charlotte. Luckily, we were booked into the Duke Mansion, the former home of

Polar Bear Cubs Playing in the Snow A mother polar bear escorts her amazingly adorable cubs across the ice, but the youngsters are too interested in playing, in this scene from Frozen Planet (tonight at 8pm on Discovery Channel). Happy Sunday

On the Moons of Mighty Jupiter (1970) Wired News (blog) By David SF Portree In January 1610, Pisan natural philosopher Galileo Galilei pointed a small refracting (spyglass-type) telescope of his own manufacture at the bright dot of Jupiter. By mid-month he had discovered all four of the planet's moons now

It took the better part of my day to get to that 10 percent point. Damn long-lasting tablets. (Credit: Eric Franklin/CNET) Over the last couple of days I've run CNET's tablet battery drain test on both the new iPad and the iPad 2. The iPad 2's battery life hadn't been tested since iOS 4.3, so while my focus was on evaluating the new iPad's battery, this was also an oppo...

NY1 Annual Crossword Puzzle Tournament Underway In Brooklyn NY1 College basketball isn't the only tournament underway that keeps most people guessing for the right answers. The 35th annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament is being held this weekend at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott in Downtown Brooklyn. ACPT 2012: Going Into the Finals New York Times (blog

One morning in December 2011 Mikko ­Hypponen, the chief security research officer at F-Secure, an anti-virus software company, scrolls down the screen of his laptop examining the latest of the 200,000 malware files to arrive in his office every day in Helsinki. As he does so, the data shifts downwards, the most recent files at the top. "This sample, PA3control.exe, arrived eight mi...

Well, I don't know if this blog will be visited by US government spiders, but according to Animal New York, the below search terms are used by the DHS to monitor "social media". Ho-humm. Let's see what happens. DHS Media Monitoring Terms 2.13 Key Words & Search Terms This is a current list of terms that will be used by the NOC when monitoring social media sites to provide situational...

Dan Worth, V3.co.uk Firm schedules conference call to outline plans for finances Apple has said it will finally lift the curtain on plans for its $98bn cash pile, with a conference call set for Monday, 19 March. The firm has accumulated the huge

Just completed the install in my truck - these trucks with the flow through consoles are a challenge, and I took an approach that is quite different than any other ones I've seen. There's not much info out there to help with installing radios in these trucks, so I hope this may inspire/help other radio/scanner junkies out there

USA TODAY 'Hunger Games' fans switch arenas from page to screen USA TODAY By Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY What is it about The Hunger Games that has made it the hottest teen fiction series since Harry Potter and Twilight? We went to the source and found three avid and articulate fans — ages 17 to 74 — to tell us

RKill is a program that was developed at BleepingComputer.com that attempts to terminate known malware processes so that your normal security software can then run and clean your computer of infections. [License: Freeware| Requires: Win7/Vista/XP | Size: 984 KB

On Friday, Apple’s latest and greatest iPad launched in ten countries around the globe. If you were one of the lucky people to pre-order one online before they sold out, or if you happened to make your way through the lines at retail stores, then you’ve seen the “resolutionary” Retina display that the device touts. But what good is such a display without apps that are prepa...

Hollywood Reporter George Clooney Talks About Arrest, Sudan Crisis on 'Fox News Sunday,' 'Meet ... Hollywood Reporter The Oscar-winning actor toured the Sunday talk show circuit after being arrested during a protest outside of the Sudanese Embassy on Friday. After meeting with President Obama, testifying on Capitol Hill about Sudan's humanitarian crisis, ... Clooney uses star power to shine light

Call it a case of server envy. While I think IBM has the right server design for small and medium businesses that employ its workhorse IBM i operating system and database double whammy, it has unfortunately put the wrong processor in that machine. I am, of course, talking about Intel's long-awaited Sandy Bridge-EP Xeon E5-2600 processor, which debuted two weeks ago and started shipping in System x